The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy

By STEPHEN H. BALCH

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about whether the humanities
and social sciences have so diverged from the natural sciences that
they now require new governing structures to promote intellectual
diversity. Every so often in the history of great institutions,
fundamental issues of governance assume a compelling urgency. Such
dramatic episodes are familiar enough at the highest levels of
politics. But they also occur in the social, cultural, and
religious spheres. Ecclesiastical history is